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Friday, June 21, 2013

Steampunk Village with Paula Cheney + Last Day of Summer School Sale!

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We
are so pleased to have the magnificent Paula Cheney back as a guest on
the blog to show us how to make this phenomenal Steampunk Village!

Hi again, Paula here! Super excited to share my
Steampunk Village with you today. The houses are made using the Tim
Holtz Artful Dwellings die - but I'm going to take it a step further and
make them 3-D. I made a village like this at Christmas time but when
January rolled around and the little village had to be packed up I was
so sad to take it down. So, todays alternative is for everyday use...no
packing up (at least till December). Enjoy!

(All instructions pictured left to right, top to bottom)(1)Cut a variety of 6 x 6” papers from the back of the Tim Holtz French Industrial Paper Stash. Cut at least 4 of the 6 x 6" papers into random sized strips. Also cut 3 pieces of cardstock 6 x 8 1/2” (I am using Ranger Kraft cardstock) (2)Use a Collage Glue stick to adhere
the strips to each of the 3 pieces of cardstock, making sure they butt
up against each other but do not overlap.(3)Use a sewing machine to stitch between the papers or for you sewers out there, “stitch in the ditch”. (4)Use the Tim Holtz Artful Dwellings die, cut TWO
of the cardstock pieces as well as two matching pieces of Grungeboard.
Note: there is one rounded top house piece in this die. I used this as
a door so I only needed to cut one of them. Only the pointed top
pieces were made into houses.(5)Use a Collage Glue stick to match up the pieces and glue them together.
Once glued, place under a heavy book for 30 minutes. This will cement
the paper and Grungeboard together. (6)Since
we are making three little 3-D houses, we need sides and a roof for
each. Using the measurements below, cut 2 sides and 2 roof pieces for
each house from Grungeboard. Use a Sharpie to mark each piece
accordingly.

Big house -

sides - 2 x 3"

roof - 3 x 2 1/2"

Tall house -

sides - 2 1/2 x 1 5/8"

roof - 2 x 3"

Small House -

sides - 2 1/4 x 1 5/8"

roof - 2 x 2 1/4"(7)Cover each SIDE piece with the remaining cardstock (do not cover the
roof pieces with paper). Each house you create should have a front and
back, 2 sides, and two roof pieces. (8)Use 1/8" Wonder tape to put the house pieces together. Way easier than liquid glue. (9)If there are little pieces of red thread hanging, I just covered them with extra paper bits.

(10) Time to embellish! One of the 6 x 6 papers has pictures of top hat men. I found three that I could cut out for the front of the houses. (11) Then I gathered some Idea-ology bits to choose from. (12)I started adding all the bits and pieces to the houses. So many choices that will look great with the French Industrial paper. I added a Ring Fastener door handle to the rounded piece, then used foam squares to add to the front of the big house. (13)I cut a 1/4" x 8" strip to cover the edge and cover the foam squares.
Again, I used 1/8" Wonder tape to adhere the paper to the edge of the
door. (14)

Now for the roof, Cover
each roof piece with Ranger Metal Foil Tape. Cut the piece big enough
so you can wrap around to the back. Remember the roof pieces hang off
the house a bit so you will be able to see underneath about a 1/4" on
the sides and bottom. (15)Run each set of roof pieces through the Vagabond machine using a texture fade to create a pattern in the metal. There
are so many patterns to choose from that I couldn't decide, so I made
each roof different. I went with the harlequin, honeycomb, and bingo. (16)I used Pitch Black Alcohol ink to color the metal with an Alcohol Ink Applicator and felt pad. (17 & 18)Once dry, I added several layers of Ginger over the Pitch Black, letting it dry between layers. Love, love, love this effect.

(19)Add the roof to each house with (you guessed it), Wonder Tape. I love how the Honeycomb pattern turned out. It looks almost like an old slate roof. (20 & 21) I added a Clock key to the big house roof before I put it on the house. (22)Then I had an idea. Use the Riveted Metal texture fade to make metal
patches for the houses! I spotted one place on the texture fade that
would give me the right size patch. Then layered 3 pieces of Metal Tape
and ran it through the Vagabond. (23)Cut them out, add some Alcohol ink and sand a bit to distress it and bring out the silver underneath. A patch is made. (24)Peel off the backing paper and stick it right on the house where you
like! I think I could go a little crazy making metal patches. (25 & 26)The embellishments: Remnant Rub words + cash key. (27) Add philosophy tag, mini gears, game spinner, & ring fasteners!!

Final product shot ((drum roll please))...

Well,
I hope you liked the Steampunk Village. So many versions of the
village can be made to suit your decor. And really, why stop at three?

188 comments:

Wauw what an awesome idea, and it looks amazing with these little houses here. And I can see this idea used for a small christmasvillage too. It would look so awesome.Thanks so much for loads of great ideas and wonderful projects here through summerschool. It has been such a pleasure to follow, and thanks to all the amazing girls, who´s shared all their great ideas and tips with us here.Have a wonderful week-end everyone and lots of great fun.

Wauw Simon Says Stamp! Summer School has been out of this world amazing & just when I think it couldn't get any better Bamm! Paula brings us her Super Cool Steampunk house project. I love that I can keep this version out all year :-)

Exactly! Why stop at three? These are tooooo much fun to look at and study to not have a whole bunch of them to look at! Love how each roof is different and that each little house has new things to discover about it! Wayyyyy cool! Thanks!

That is an amazing set of houses! I love the key used as a chimney. I've enjoyed Summer School and hope it will become a tradition if it isn't already. SSS had a full and varied curriculum. Thanks for all the hard work that was put into it.

Your village is wonderful!!! Love all those details that add to the atmosphere of it.

Thank you, Simon, for such a wonderful Summer School. I think of all the series I have seen on the many blogs I visit, this has been in my very top one or two!!! Fantastic session with terrific designers. The tutorials have been incredibly helpful and the projects so inspiring. Thank you soooo much!!

These little houses are SO cute! Such a lot of wonderful details - especially I like the embossed roofs and the way you did the finish. The big key is a nice idea *gg* - so funny! Also I haven't seen the riveted metal embossingfolder - amazing and versatile! Very nice village, great job!best wishes, serafeena

This project is just wonderful Paula. I am looking at this late at night and I am too tired to take it all in so I'll be back in the morning to really check it out. I just love the village and thanks so much for sharing all the steps!!

Wow what a project, so many details! It deserves to be up all year! This is really nice work. Thank you SSS for 'Summer School'. It has been fun to see the products at work (plus lessons!) from all the amazing people you had working on this project!

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Wow Paula, These are so Fab!!, I have 2 big drawers FULL of Tim Holtz'sawesome stuff, most of the things you used for these cool project's I already have so I'm so ready to try this out, they are so adorable, so my style. Thanks for showing us.

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